Reportedly the Janata Dal (Secular) on thursday announced its candidates in 10 out of 15 assembly seats that are headed for bye-polls on december 5. Meanwhile the seats in which the party has not announced candidates yet include Kagwad, Athani, Mahalakshmi Layout, Hosakote and Gokak and hence the party has announced it will support independent candidate Sharat Bachegowda in Hosakote.
Furthermore the JD(S)' announcement comes a day after the supreme court decided that the rebel MLAs who resigned from the Congress-JD(S) ruling coalition can contest the bye-polls. Perhaps the entire rebel MLAs except roshan Baig joined the bjp in presence of chief minister and former state president BS Yediyurappa on Wednesday. Further the bjp has allotted 13 seats to 13 of these rebels and is yet to announce its candidates in 2 seats and the congress released its first set of eight candidates on october 31.
Moreover here is a list of the JD(S) candidates:
KR Pete: BL Devaraju
Yeshwanthpur: Javarayi Gowda
Ranebennur: mallikarjun Khuba
Hirekerur: Anjappa Jatappa
Vijayanagar: NM Nabi
Chikkaballapura: KP Bache Gowda
KR Puram: krishna Murthy
Hunsur: C Somashekar
Shivajinagar: Tanveer Ahmed
Yellapur: Chaitra Gowda
